The roots boiled and eaten with oil andvinegar, or without oil,
warms old and cold stomachs oppressed with wind and phlegm, or those that
have the phthisis or consumption of the lungs. It provokes women's courses
and expelled the afterbirth, procures an appetite and expelled wind. The
juice is good to heal ulcers of the head and face and the candied roots are
held as effectual as Angelica to preserve from infection in the time of a
plague and to warm and comfort a cold weak stomach.